Maureen Corrigan of The Washington Post picked her list of "The 10 best thrillers and mysteries of 2018." Check out all of the ten titles via this link.
Amazon announced its editors’ picks of the best books of 2018 this past weekend. To check out all of the top 20 honorees, hop on over here.
Scots crime writer Val McDermid has been appointed as the new patron of the Scottish Book Trust, an organization that tries to transform lives through reading and writing. Val will lend her support to Trust to help inspire and support the people of Scotland to read and write for pleasure through programs and outreach work.
Prometheus Books, which is nearing its 50th anniversary, has decided to refocus on nonfiction titles and sold its two genre imprints to Start Publishing. One of those, the crime fiction imprint Seventh Street Books, currently has a backlist of about ninety titles including award-winning books by Allen Eskins, Adrian McKinty, Lori Rader-Day, and Terry Shames. Start Publishing began has an exclusively digital publisher but has expanded to include print editions as well. Start will publish both print and digital editions of the newly acquired Seventh Street titles.
A new book suggests that Arthur Conan Doyle based Moriarty on the real-life mathematician, George Boole.
The Guardian profiled Endless Night, one of Agatha Christie's favorite of her works that "still has shock factor." As the article author, Sam Jordison, notes, the 1967 novel isn’t so much a "whodunnit," as a "who gonna get done."
The latest issue of Mysterical-E is available online for your reading pleasure, with eleven new crime stories; Gerald So's regular column takes a look at the Cloak and Dagger TV series and more media crime notables, while Anita Page looked back at the 1997 classic, Wag the Dog; plus new book reviews from Christine Verstraete and new interviews and more.
More fun with amazing bookstores to put on your bucket list: "Living 11 Of The Dreamiest Bookstores To Get Lost In Across Canada"
The latest poem at the 5-2 crime poetry weekly is "I Believe Her" by John Kaprielian.
In the Q&A roundup, Alexander McCall Smith (author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series) sat down for a chat with the Globe & Mail about his writing and how, at age 70, he has no desire to slow down; the Sudbury Star spoke with Sam Wiebe who edited the latest addition to the Akashic Books noir series titles, Vancouver Noir; and Writers Tell All welcomed Jeff Abbott talking about his novel The Three Beths and what it was like trying to contine to write after his house burned down.
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